Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 15:10:23 +0300
From: Ora Lassila <ora@hutcs.cs.hut.fi>
To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
Subject: CLOS question
Return-Receipt-To: ora@hutcs.cs.hut.fi
The release note for the MCL 2.0b1 (page 8) states that the
implementation is still incomplete but will be completed before the
release. I was wondering whether Apple is going to support the CLOS
metaobject protocol, that is, will DEFGENERIC, DEFCLASS etc. accept
the :meta... keywords?
Ora Lassila
Laboratory of Information Processing Science,
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
We will not support the full MOP with this release, but we will
support the :METACLASS keyword to DEFCLASS, the
:GENERIC-FUNCTION-CLASS & :METHOD-CLASS options to DEFGENERIC, and
allow subclassing of STANDARD-CLASS, STANDARD-METHOD, &
STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION. Basically, if it's in CLtL Second Edition,
we intend for it to be in MCL 2.0 final.